I've taken a brake or two from TOR and when I do I usually go back to re-playing the classic single player games of yester-year for a while. Baldur's Gate 1&2 with their multitude of community made bits of extra content, the KOTORs, the Gothic series, some Mass Effect or Pillars of Eternity for a newer vibe... And so on. When I fell like getting back on the horse of online gaming I restart my SWTOR subscription and off I go

Well it's all a matter of opinion... I've only done it on 2 toons both non force wielders... The trooper and agent. Both high ranking officers in their respective service... So I didn't find that the storyline didn't fit them what with becoming the commander (this is doubly true for the trooper). I had no qualms about fighting powerful force wielders, especially since you are imbued with the emperors power. What I didn't like is this give every class every companion tripe... I preferred companions class specific... And I didn't like losing them but I can understand how it could happen. Overall it was a pretty solid role playing experience for me...

i wouldn't group with any people that do "speed runs" on principle alone. I want to enjoy my gaming. And button mashing non stop just to finish a FP isn't enjoyment for me... It defeats the purpose of playing an RPG be it of the MMO variety or otherwise. Now, I agree with other posters that you shouldn't be holding the group back with scavenging (specifically if they asked you not to) and do it in the downtime... As much as you get to do... You won't get everything ofc but you'll get something with minimum impact on the rest of the group. If its just pull pull pull non-stop then either leave if you can't stomach it or force yourself through it... Either way put the players in question on your ignore list and move on. Personally I like to take my time with the story aspects and conversations and dislike skipping through them in most cases... So I wouldn't group with people that would expect me to. If they are rude about it I'll just leave and they can find another tank (which in my case is what my main is)... No skin off my back...

Absolutely baseless statement... And you've been doing the same in various threads. The person above suggesting /ignore has the right idea.

Any proof of this or are you interpreting what is at best circumstantial evidence the way you want to interpret it and presenting it as fact? As for the OP... All I can say is that personally I'm on a rolling monthly subscription...

Well... What I take from this is that the game is probably not going into maintenance this year... Which in itself is good news for me as I love this game. How much content 6.0 will being is anyone's guess at this point... Time will tell. Either way, I'll probably be here when they finally turn off the lights whenever that may be... Until then, enjoy the game everyone!

I will echo what others have said... There just isn't a substitute for the rich fully voiced storytelling of a proper RPG and this one has star wars in it... And to top it all off you can share the experience with others online. I like the sci fi genre in general but another run of the mill shooter just seems so uninspiring. Give me SWTOR over that every day of the week and twice on Sunday...

What saddens me most i think is the fact that my only MMORPG and SW fix is being sidelined for a shooter... Is Fifa and online shooters (which let's be honest are all the same in different skins) the pinnacle of gaming these days?! Is that really what the market is after?! I dunno, maybe it's just me but I could never really get into that type of game. Are those of us that played RPGs from Baldur's Gate to Gothic to Kotor to The Elder Scrolls to Pillars of Eternity and enjoy proper RPG elements in out online gaming so few and far between?! Hell, I'd rather play MOBAs personally then Destiny, Overwatch or Anthem... Sigh...

While personally I welcome more sci-fi franchises with open arms (a bit tired of the fantasy theme myself) I feel that it would be foolhardy of EA to drop the SW universe completely... And lets be honest... Outside of TOR there isn't much SW out there. Battlefront 2 has it's own issues. RPG wise that's even more true. So I can't help but think that TOR will only really be shut down when they have a replacement of sorts lined up. At least that's the only option that seems logical for me...

Im sorry but what? ... Yes, Luke was the "biggest" hero in the SW universe by virtue of being the first and the main hero in the original trilogy... thats it. There were far more powerful Jedi then Luke in the prequels like Windu and Yoda. Nowhere in canon is it established that he had become some almighty force god. In fact Palpatine handed his arse to him without effort. The EU is irrelevant and just some random author's imagination just like TLJ was the way Ryan imagined it. It's artistic freedom. As to the portrayal of Luke not being "in character"... i have to disagree again. What we've seen of Luke in ep.4,5,6 shows us a good but ultimately flawed individual that exists on the very edge of falling to the dark side. Its his imbalance that gives weight to the whole part of ep.6 where Palpatine tries to turn him... It is emphasized in the fight with Vader where (once Leia is mentioned) Luke uses his anger to overcome Vader and nearly kill him. Yes, ultimately he manages to walk that line and not fall over but by no means is he the perfect Jedi. Therefore his actions when it came to Kylo are completely understandable... he had a Vader deja vu and entertained the thought of nipping it in the bud as it were... as he entertained killing Vader in their fight. But yes, he did change somewhat...30 years (many of which in seclusion) will do that to you... but out of character? ... not so much. This is the second installment in the series... there are going to be things left unanswered... and yes, i too question some of the choices, but it was never going to be exactly the way i imagined it anyway. By and large it was a very enjoyable movie for me and a far better film then TFA and ep. 1 and 2 at the very least.

Well he ain't wrong about grouping. I rarely group with people I don't know simply because I don't trust them to have the patience to explain boss fights. I main a tank you see so knowing what to do is important. Having returned to the game (again) just over a month ago I was approached by an old acquaintance to tank master Umbara. I was in 230s at the time and had never done that FP but the guy insisted I could so it since he'd played with me before and knew I was a decent enough tank. To compound things we had a disconnect and had to run most of the instance in a 3 man + companion group... And guess what?! We managed to do it anyway. The guy was patient enough to explain what I had to do for each boss fight and we cleared it. This is with no previous experience and under geared according to most people. In fact I'd wager most would not even have given me the chance to tank it when they saw I was in 230s and had never done it before... And therein lies the problem with running PUGs imho...

There are two types of players in mmorpg's. There is the mmo people and then there is the RPG people. Personally I am firmly in the latter. I care more about story, character development, interaction with story characters (NPCs), the game being fully voiced and all that jazz then I do about the mmo side of the game. Now, I am a very sociable person so I do tend to like having a laugh in guild chat, doing PvP and PvE group content and I agree that we do need more content at a quicker rate. However, if it comes at the cost of the RPG elements then that is when the game loses me for good. I player WoW from launch to WotLK but I would struggle to go back to it now having gone through the fully voiced story experience that is SWTOR irrespective of the amount of content they put out. I've been around SWTOR on and off since launch and really no other MMORPG has managed to capture my interest in the meantime. And to top it off none of the other mmorpg's on the market have the SW IP which I personally love. Is TOR the best MMOrpg on the market? Probably not. But it is the best mmoRPG on the market. See what I did there?! lol. At least for me that is the case... And it will likely continue to be so until either we get another SW mmorpg or a truly phenomenal game captures my interest. Like I've said, none of the other mmorpg's on the market have managed to do so thus far...

so what? id keep my stock supplied if it were my store...

fyi folks there are probably a fair number of people that dont have and alt of each class... but speaking only of myself i have exactly 2 level 70s (main trooper and alt sniper)... and then low(er) level SW, JC and BH. I spend most of my in-game time on my main and im looking to progress the story first and foremost on my main. I do still want to see some of the stories but generally alts are a distraction for when i get bored of my main. I would say thats just me... but really odds are then whenever someone says/asks "am i the only one who.....?" they arent... lol

yeah thats my hope too. But personally i am SW first, RPG second, MMO third so could never go back to WOW even though my brother still plays it. It just doesnt do it for me and it hasnt since WotLK... especially not when there is this game around despite the slow rate of content updates.